Package: release.debian.org User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock
Upstream contact me about sevaral (apparently too many) users having
issues with an hexchat external plugin being too noisy [1] and causing
other issues for unexperienced users.
All considered probably such barely maintained plugin shouldn't be
instaled by default indeed, therefore I'm asking for permission to
upload the following debdiff and having it in stretch.
[1] "OTR: Error saving instance tags: No such file or directory
(gcrypt)" for every query started if not configured
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ea6265b..2052824 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+hexchat (2.12.4-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * Demote hexchat-otr from Recommends to Suggests.
+ It reportely causes noise and problems for unexperienced users, and it's
+ mostly unmaintained plugin, so don't install it by default.
+
+ -- Mattia Rizzolo <mat...@debian.org> Mon, 29 May 2017 22:45:42 +0200
+
hexchat (2.12.4-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* Also apply patch 4c178782a779f013fafab476506f7d4dae372b8a.patch on ubuntu.
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index a221a8a..bec6ba4 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ Depends:
${shlibs:Depends},
Recommends:
gvfs-bin,
- hexchat-otr,
hexchat-perl,
hexchat-plugins,
hexchat-python3,
Suggests:
+ hexchat-otr,
unifont,
Description: IRC client for X based on X-Chat 2
HexChat is a graphical IRC client with a GTK+ GUI. Features include Python
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